Detailed intelligence gathered from aerial reconnaissance and coastwatcher Martin Clemens revealed that a twelve-ship Japanese convoy had docked at Lunga Point and had unloaded four heavy-duty tractors, six road rollers, two generators, an ice plant, two tiny locomotives and a dozen hopper cars.

More than a year later, another coastwatcher, Australian Navy Sub-Lt. Austin Reginald Evans, hid U.S. Navy Lt. John F. Kennedy near Kolombangara from the Japanese after his PT-109 was rammed and sunk by an enemy destroyer.